Will see what the trial holds
Have a feeling I’m going to be adding often that in South Africa the number one reason women are killed is by a man they know in an altercation. It’s like triple the percentage globally.
I don’t usually use the terms ‘crimes of passion’, ‘blind rage’ because they are loaded and not as nuanced as any complicated connections between behavior and crime. OJ Simpson, who was of course acquitted, he was textbook case of where the ex/partner killed from homicide. (For instance he had choked he before, alcohol abuse, anger issues, custody complaints ra ra ra.)
A lot of our conversation is about plausibility, I have a feeling this was similar in OJ’s case where a famous, charming person is believed while the defense and his supporters painted police as conspiring and biased. Yet in hindsight, take out the context of race and fame, these types of men can kill partners and other’s they are jealous off. I arrive at this with the accumulation of State's evidence to date.
Perhaps Pistorius mindset can be combined with shooters like Michael Dunn or the popcorn retired sheriff shooter. They killed out as a reaction to fear and anger but it seems they carried it out quite systematically. From the Pistorius ear witnesses accounts the could be the screaming started by Steenkamp's fear, she retaliated in some way so he may have then yelled cried: “Help, help, help.”
I find it awfully strange (among so many, many
other things about his affidavit) that an Olympic & Paralympic athlete, who understands injury and has been exposed to cuts and bleeding on a constant basis, didn’t put on a tourniquet or use his bandages around his own body to stem any of her wounds. He might have tried to stop some blood with towels but it didn’t look like he tried hard. The best strategy is to kill the witness.
